Google Summer of Code

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Saturday 03 of March 2007, Adam Gołębiowski wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:32:07AM +0100, Krystian Tomczyk wrote:
>>> Dnia 03-03-2007, sob o godzinie 00:39 +0100, Adam Gołębiowski
>>>
>>> napisał(a):
>>>> * an installer that does not look like one from Slackware 3.0 age
>>> Somethink like this http://pldi.blogspot.com/ ?
>> Nice one. Anyone knows how to contact pldi's author?
> 
> His email is on the screenshot :-)
> 
> Unfortunately his installer is svgalib based, probably without text mode :(

The funny thing is that he's not here. ;]

What about LiveCD based instalation? I still think this is the best idea 
for an installer for us. (of course if LiveCD would get a new maintainer)

Some of my old ideas (verbatim copied from last years post):

I would also add a project to make FiST [1] and especially unionfs [2]
working in PLD. This would of course involve polishing some particular
use cases:

1. PLD Live CD united with a disk partition, loop file on a FAT
partition or a pendrive. [3] This could also be integrated with rpm to
allow temporary installs on the rw partition + an option to incorporate
them with the CD or sane upgrades by replacing the CD with a new LiveCD
(and resolving conflicts with the overlays from the rw partition).

2. A feature similar to Windows snapshots but better (of course! ;). [4]
[5]. A low-level implementation (this should be relatively easy) and a
GUI (GTK or ncurses or whatever the hell you want or even all these
combined) for easy creation of snapshots and reverting them back. (this
should give us more beta testers because an installation of some
unstable packages could be reverted and the system quickly repaired)

PS. Sorry if what I wrote is unclear. Feel free to ask questions so I
can make it more comprehensible.

[1] http://www.filesystems.org/
[2] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html
[3] http://www.unionfs.org/
[4]
http://flaviostechnotalk.com/wordpress/index.php/2005/06/28/filesystem-snapshots-with-unionfs/
[5] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7714

-- 
regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa